TweetShare . “Running the Streets with Felice León,” a web series that features creative professionals to inspire aspiring talent featured our very own, Joi-Marie McKenzie in it’s latest webisode. Host Felice León sat down with Joi-Marie to discuss how she started The Fab Empire, her philanthropic works and her cardinal rules for aspiring journalists. The two Continue Reading
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October 22nd, 2012Recap: The Robert Glasper Experiment at SOBs
TweetShare by Felice Leon The Robert Glasper Experiment is where jazz, hip-hop, soul, funk, and rock collide. Narrow-minded spectators need not apply. On Tuesday, a niche crowd of the artsy and eclectic, patiently waited on a line that spanned down Varick Street and around the corner at the quaint SOBs in Soho. The space seemed Continue Reading
October 2nd, 2012Say it Aint So: The Dekalb Market Closes for Good
TweetShare by Felice Leon After several successful seasons in downtown Brooklyn, the Dekalb Market has cleared out the shipping containers, packed up its picnic benches, and closed its gates for good. Say it aint so! Prior to its close on Sunday, we had the opportunity to speak with Adam Zucker of Youngwoo & Associates (YWA). Continue Reading
October 1st, 2012Recap: Common Performs at Ajile L. Tuner Foundation’s Farewell Summer 2012
TweetShare by Felice Leon What happens when you combine a well-intentioned foundation with a Grammy-award winning rapper, electrifying performers, a packed avant-garde venue and salmon sliders? Answer: a successful event with a cause. Last Thursday, the Ajile L. Turner Scholarship Foundation and Common kissed summer good-bye with Farewell Summer 2012. The Ajile L. Turner Scholarship Continue Reading
September 17th, 2012Recap: Wiz Khalifa and French Montana Do Heineken Red Star Access
TweetShare by Felice Leon On Saturday evening, Pier 36’s Basketball City was turned into a modern-day ‘Emerald City’. With green up lighting, bottomless drinks, music bumping, and of course, the Wiz, Heineken recreated Emerald City, indeed. Heineken Red Star Access is a five-city music tour that kicked-off in Chicago mid-August. The tour is a free Continue Reading
September 5th, 2012Recap: Freedom Dance Party’s Annual Michael Jackson Tribute
TweetShare by Felice Leon Ain’t no party like a MJ party, because a MJ party don’t stop! Last Friday, upward of 1,000 shimmyers and shakers poured from the street on to the dance floor at Le Poisson Rouge (LPR), but not without waiting in a serious line (literally) spanning the venue’s block. That’s right; Michael Continue Reading
July 17th, 2012Recap: The Dekalb Market Hosts ‘Rong Summer Block Party’ with Afrika Bambaataa
TweetShare by Felice Leon Only in Brooklyn can a random lot be turned into a beacon of awesomeness. The Dekalb Market is, in fact, ‘awesomeness’. Passers-by, don’t be fooled by the modest façade. Step beyond the gate and find a lively community of entrepreneurs housed in shipping containers (as in huge steel receptacles for cargo Continue Reading
July 9th, 2012Recap: Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum
TweetShare by Felice Leon Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum is a massively popular event with an even more massive patronage. This free monthly series has come to be a fixture in New York’s artsisoci (artsy and social) scene. Art aficionados, folks posing as art aficionados, party people, people watchers, and NY Fab were Continue Reading
July 2nd, 2012Recap: The Life Files’ Prefix Brunch at BK Terrace
TweetShare by Felice Leon . The ninety-degree weather didn’t prevent partygoers from attending The Life Files’ Saturday afternoon soirée—The Prefix. This event was held at The Brooklyn Terrace. (Fab! Tip: Despite the ‘Sheraton’ logo on the glass door of the loft, Brooklyn Terrace assures NY Fab! that The BT is an independent venue and is Continue Reading
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The Fab Empire is a website that brings together all things fabulous in Baltimore, Boston, New York and Washington D.C. areas. We have a blog dedicated to the Christian community called GospelFab. With five different citizen journalists highlighting major events, parties, fashion shows and critiquing the hottest events around town, The Fab Empire promotes quality. The Fab Empire © 2010